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A five-level architectural precast array just outside downtown Austin, Texas earned Buildings: Best Façade Only Parking Structure recognition in the 2025 PCI Design Awards. San Antonio architect Gomez Vazquez International and Austin engineer MJ Structures challenged teams at the Gate Precast operation in Hillsboro, Texas to craft 69 panels affording the 7001 Burnet Road parking structure an exterior motif reinterpreting…

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60-ton gantry crane

The company’s largest mobile workhorse, the 200-ton Grove Hydraulic Crawler crane, has a 185-ft. main boom and delivers heavy-duty lifting power in applications that require high capacity at various radii in tough job site conditions—swampy or mountainous terrain among them. The GHC200 offers new features to the crawler range, such as an additional 90 percent pinning location on the boom…

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GCCA charts Low Carbon Ratings for Cement and Concrete

Sources: Global Cement and Concrete Association, London; CP staff The eight-scale Low Carbon Ratings for Cement and Concrete (LCR) is presented as a “first-of-its-kind, simple, transparent, and adaptable tool that helps builders, architects, governments, planners, and consumers everywhere in the world to make more informed and sustainable choices.” The Global Cement and Concrete Association has formatted LCR to be used…

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